How to overcome the Five Emotional disturbances by Bro. Vong Choong Choy

Date : 3 June 2018 , Sunday Time : 9.00am to 11.30am (Join us for lunch at BGF Café after the talk). Venue: BGF Shrine Hall Title : “How to overcome the Five Emotional disturbances”

Synopsis: The Five Emotional Disturbances are often explained as the Five Hindrances that affects our path of purification of Sadha, Sila, Samadhi and Panna. For meditators, they in fact hinders ones progress into Jhanas. In this talk we are shown the skillfull means to identify these emotional disturbances and apply the effective ways to overcome them as taught in the Suttas by the Buddha.

SPEAKER Profile: Bro. Vong Choong Choy He has been in the educational field until his retirement in 1997. He has served as a secondary School Principal for 17 years. He first studied Buddhism at the Brickfields Buddhist Maha Vihara. Since mid-2007 he has been learning the Dhamma and Meditation under the Venerable Dr. M. Punnaji. He is currently the class co-ordinator for Bhante Punnaji’s Sutta Sessions at the Vihara. He conducts fortnightly courses on the Sutta Pitaka at the Brickfields Buddhist Maha Vihara on Sunday mornings. Brother Vong is also a regular Dhamma speaker at other centres in the Klang valley.